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H.E.HENDRYX.

FEED 6UP FOR GAGES.

(No Model.)

No. 441,956. Patented Dec. 2, 1890.

jiwe 71%? UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY E. I-IENDRYX, OF NEl-V HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE ANDREIV B. IIENDRYX COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

FEED-CUP FOR CAGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 441,956, dated December 2, 1890.

Application filed July 26, 1890. Serial No. 360032. (No model.)

To on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY E. l-IENDRYX, of

-New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Feed-Cups for Cages; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the lettersof reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure1,aplanview of one form which a feedcup constructed in accordance with myinvention may assume, together with portions of a cage; Fig. 2, a view thereof in side elevation; Fig. 3, a view in vertical section of a modified form, which my improved cup may assume; and Fig. 4, a view in vertical section showing one of the recesses formed in the cir cular cup to receive the springs thereof.

My invention relates to an improvement in feed-cups for bird-cages, the object being to produce a simple, strong, and convenient feed-cup at alow cost for manufacture.

\Vith these ends in view my invention consists in a feed-cup having certain details of construction and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the cup consists of a flatbottomed circular vessel A, having its side walls provided with long horizontal recesses 13 15,1ocatcd opposite each other and adapted to receive wide sheet-metal retaining-springs C ,0, having their inner ends soldered to the cup, and each shaped at its outer end to form a vertical groove D and an operatingfingerlfl. The cup is also provided with two vertical stops F F, consisting of short lengths of wire extending above and below its upper and lower edges and respectively located. adjacent to but a little outside of the grooves in the said springs. The cup so formed is inserted into an oblong horizontal opening G, adapted in size to receive it, and formed in the cage, which is composed of vertical rods II and horizontal bars ll, secured together by wire staples 1'1 \Vhen the cup has been introduced the right distance into this opening, the springs fly apart and engage their grooves with the ad jacent upright rods of the cage, while the stops F F are brought into position in front of the horizontal bars adjacent to the opening, so as to engage with them and prevent the cup from being tipped up or down, whereby the cup is made very stable when in place. To remove it from the cage the outer ends or operating-fingers of the springs are grasped and pulled toward each other sufficiently to clear the said grooves from the wires, after which the cup is readily drawn out of its opening in the cage. hen in position, the main port-ion of the cup is within the cage, but a portion of it projects 011 the outside of the same to receive water orfood, if desired, to replenish the cup without removing it from the cage. In case a porcelain lining M is placed in the cup, as shown by Fig. l of the drawings, the arrangement of the cup to stand partly on the inside and partly on the outside of the cage has the effect of securing the lining in the cup against all efforts of mischievous birds-such as parrots-10 dislodge it.

If desired, only one spring may be used. An instance of such a construction is shown by Fig. 3 of the drawings, which represents a flat-bottomed cup having a curved inner wall I, a straight outer wall J, which is extended above and below the body of the cup to form stops, and a spring K, secured to the bottom of the cup and bent to engage with the bar of the cage, formingithe lower limit of the opening made therein to receive the cup. I would therefore have it understood that I do not limit myself to the exact construction herein shown and described, but hold myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention. Iain aware, however, that a circular feed-cup provided with stops and held in place by a spring is not broadly new, and I do not, therefore, claimit as such.

llavingfullydescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a feed cup or vessel, of one or more bent sheet-metal springs ends bent to form latches, which. engage with the cage, and two vertical stops also applied to the cup and extending above and below its upper and lower edges, whereby they limit the inward movement of the cup in the ap erture formed for it in the body of the cage and prevent it from tipping up or down.

HARRY E. HENDRYX.

W itn esses:

ALEXANDER R. SGHMOLL, EDWARD N. PEoK. 

